'CBS Evening News' to groom Marsha Cooke for executive producer

3/18/14 5:32 PM EDT

CBS News Asia Bureau Chief Marsha Cooke is moving to New York where she is ultimately expected to take over as Executive Producer of CBS Evening News, sources at the network told POLITICO on Tuesday.

Network executives are planning to groom Cooke, a former Evening News producer, to replace current EP Pat Shevlin within the year, the sources said. Those sources cautioned that the executives could change their plans.

CBS News spokesperson Sonya McNair declined to confirm Cooke's return to New York or her next position, noting that the network does not comment on personnel matters.

Cooke joined CBS News in Los Angeles in 1993 and became a producer of "Evening News with Dan Rather" in 2000. She began reporting from Asia in 2006 and was named Asia Bureau Chief in 2009.

Shevlin became EP when Scott Pelley took over as host in 2011. The program has seen notable ratings growth in the Pelley-Shevlin era, though it remains in third place behind ABC World News and NBC Nightly News.